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Fals Borda, Orlando
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Gandhi, Mohandas K. (1869-1948)
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Kaplún, Mario
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Communication and social change in Africa: Selected case studies
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2025), 235 pp.
Public Interest Communications: Strategy for Changemakers
New York; London: Routledge (2025), xii, 344 pp.
"Written by two practitioners with deep professional experience, this book introduces readers to public interest communications, which takes an evidence-based approach to using strategic communications to drive positive social change. Each chapter includes accessible, applicable insights, exercises
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Public Interest Communications: Strategy for Changemakers
Key Guidance
Oxford: Routledge (2025), 357 pp.
"Written by two practitioners with deep professional experience, this book introduces readers to public interest communications, which takes an evidence-based approach to using strategic communications to drive positive social change. Each chapter includes accessible, applicable insights, exercises
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El cuarto mosquetero: La comunicación participativa como proceso del cambio social
La Paz: Plural Editores (2025), 600 pp.
Voces con propósito: Manual de estrategias de comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social. Módulo conceptual
Key Guidance
Barranquilla: Editorial Universidad del Norte;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), xvi, 106 pp.
Voces con propósito: Manual de estrategias de comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social. Módulo del participante
Key Guidance
Barranquilla: Editorial Universidad del Norte;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), xiv, 76 pp.
"Este módulo presenta un proceso paso a paso que permitirá a los miembros de las organizaciones, o campañas, interesados en mejorar su visibilidad e impacto, formular estrategias de comunicación efectivas para el cambio social y de comportamiento. Aunque se han desarrollado múltiples modelos de
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Voces con propósito: Manual de estrategias de comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social. Módulo del facilitador
Key Guidance
Barranquilla: Editorial Universidad del Norte;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), xv, 26 pp.
From Statistics to Stories: Indices and Indicators as Communication Tools for Social Change
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 29, issue 4 (2024), pp. 1090-1108
"The terms ‘indices’ and ‘indicators’ may immediately cause eyelids to droop. How, then, might they serve to impassion publics and, ultimately, promote social change? This paper examines the extent to which indices and indicators can be considered communication tools for social movements and
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China and the Internet: Using New Media for development and Social change
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2024), 368 pp.
"Two oversimplified narratives have long dominated news reports and academic studies of China's Internet: one lauding its potentials to boost commerce, the other bemoaning state control and measures against the forces of political transformations. This bifurcation obscures the complexity of the dyna
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Unlearning Communication for Social Change: A Pedagogical Proposition
Social Sciences, volume 13, issue 335 (2024), 16 pp.
"We have in recent years seen growing calls for pedagogies for social change amongst communication and development scholars, identifying resistances, critiques, and emerging practices in the field. This review article addresses this ‘pedagogical turn’, suggesting that it is in these pedagogies w
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Strategic Communication Management for Development and Social Change: Perspectives from the African Region
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xix, 287 pp.
"This book is the first of its kind within the African region to combine scholarly perspectives from the fields of Strategic Communication Management and Communication for Development and Social Change. It draws insights from scholars across the African continent by unravelling the complementary nat
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Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South
Inspiring Practice
Top Insights
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2023), vii, 284 pp.
"Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South brings together voices from the margins to engage in dialogue about common social change issues in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. This book argues that resistance and social movements, expressed in music and songs and exchang
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Communicating for Social Change: A Model of Communicative Power
International Communication Gazette, volume 84, issue 7-8 (2022), pp. 591-612
"There are two fundamental concerns about global communication for social change (CSC) research and practice that guide the present study. The first is whether CSC researchers are collecting evidence regarding whether interventions work, the second is whether the sub-field is building theory about h
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Connections & Accomplishments: A 2021 Pop Culture for Social Change Network Analysis
Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project;National Domestic Workers Alliance (2022), ii; 32 pp.
Freire and the Perseverance of Hope: Exploring Communication and Social Change
Paulo Freire (honoured person)
Amsterdam; London: Institute of Network Cultures;Loughborough University (2022), 146 pp.
"The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most important thinkers of the 21st century, figuring among the most quoted authors in the fields of education and social sciences all over the world. He is also a core reference to an infinite number of grassroots and activist initiativ
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Mahatma Gandhi and Mass Media: Mediating Conflict and Social Change
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 180 pp.
"This book explores Gandhi's engagement with print news media. It examines how Gandhi, the man and his message, negotiated with the sociopolitical circumstances of his milieu and the methods of communication that he adopted towards this end. It analyses the role that he played in building up alterna
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Global Perspectives on NGO Communication for Social Change
New York; London: Routledge (2022), vi, 205 pp.
"An international line-up of authors first discuss communication practices, strategies, and media uses by NGOs, providing insights into the specifics of NGO programs for social change goals and reveal particular sets of tactics NGOs commonly employ. The book then presents a set of case studies of NG
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Narrative Spices: An Innovational Guide for Flavourful Human Rights
Inspiring Practice
Bogotá; Washington, DC: JustLabs;Fund for Global Human Rights (2022), 66 pp.
"This document is a different kind of guide. Meaning, it's less of a guide and more of an invitation. An invitational guide, if you will. For us, narrative research has become one door into a bigger, older, interrelated question about how we inspire one another to change. This document tries to conn
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Breaking Cultures of Silence: Learnings from a Participatory Community-Centred Approach to Leveraging and Researching Documentaries for Social Change
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 7, issue 1 (2022), pp. 3-22
"This article offers new learnings and recommended practices for documentary-centred grassroots engagement and social change research. These learnings were developed through a community engagement effort in 2020 that centred around a documentary film about racial violence and injustice, 'Always in S
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La comunicación desde abajo: Historia, sentidos y prácticas de la comunicación alternativa en España
Barcelona: Gedisa (2021), 251 pp.
"La comunicación alternativa –también denominada comunitaria, libre, ciudadana, del tercer sector o para el cambio social– es percibida como una hermana menor en las ciencias de la comunicación hasta padecer una triple invisibilización: en la historia social del campo, en relación con los m
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